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The shop was on the way tohis office, and it's hard to miss: StudioOptix is known for out-therestyles like periwinkle Sabineframes with blocky brows ($425);ice-blue Voltas with a jagged, crystallineshape, by Oscar Mamooi($750); and Lucas de Stäel framesmade from leather, stone, and animalskins (from $900). The Optix stylists usually show mesomething I think I want, maybe ina more conventional shade, andthen they'll show me something Ididn't know I wanted, like the thin,round, inky-blue-striped pair I'mwearing these days". BEST OF NEW YORK The Best EYEGLASSES SHOPS STUDIO OPTIX, 63 W. 49th St.;studiooptix.com WFMU DJ GAYLORD FIELDSfirst found Studio Optix in the1990s, when he was a politicalresearcher working in RockefellerCenter. [Extracted from the article]